[gdal-dev] gdal_translate a VRT built on top of GeoTIFFs with NaN

Daniele Romagnoli daniele.romagnoli at geo-solutions.it
Mon May 2 06:37:58 PDT 2016


On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Le lundi 02 mai 2016 15:16:30, Daniele Romagnoli a écrit :
> > Hi Even,
> > The produced GeoTIFF doesn't contain any nodata metadata/flag/TAG.
> > It simply has "NaN" pixels. QuantumGIS report those pixels as "nan" and
> > OpenEV report them as 1.#QNAN so I think they are properly "recognized"
> as
> > NaN.
> >
> > I'm wondering if the GDAL utilities explicitly look for some
> metadata/flag
> > (as the "nodata value" in your previous ascii based sample) to do noData
> > checks or if it's also able to recognize a NaN "binary" value inside the
> > pixels.
>
> Yes, the NaN value must be explicitly set as the nodata property of the
> geotiff
> file so that gdalbuildvrt can recognize it as the nodata value (similarly
> to
> other nodata value)
>
> You can do this with gdal_translate -a_nodata nan (or gdal_edit.py
> -a_nodata
> nan)
>

Ok. Thanks.
I was trying to add it with "gdalbuildvrt -srcnodata nan" to avoid an
intermediate step between my geotiff and the VRT but I was getting:
ERROR 5: Invalid -srcnodata value

Therefore, I had to edit the VRT by replacing the
<ComplexSource><NODATA>-9999</NODATA></ComplexSource> with "nan" instead of
"-9999".
Do you know if there is any chance to let the -srcnodata parameter accept a
String like "nan"?

Cheers,
Daniele



> >
> > What do you think about it?
> > Cheers,
> > Daniele
> >
> > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Daniele Romagnoli <
> >
> > daniele.romagnoli at geo-solutions.it> wrote:
> > > Hi Even.
> > > Thanks for the feedback.
> > >
> > > Sorry... I'm using GDAL 1.11.3.
> > > I'm going to double check to make sure I didn't make any mistake.
> > > I'll let you know.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Daniele
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:49 PM, Even Rouault <
> even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >> Le lundi 02 mai 2016 14:37:39, Daniele Romagnoli a écrit :
> > >> > Hi List,
> > >> >
> > >> > I have a reprojectiion tool which creates GeoTIFFs with NoData =
> NaN.
> > >> > I'm creating couple of GeoTIFFs with partially overlapping areas
> where
> > >> > GeoTIFF1 has NaNs in a region and GeoTIFF2 has proper values in the
> > >> > same overlapping region and viceversa (GeoTIFF2 has some NaN area
> > >> > while
> > >>
> > >> GeoTIFF1
> > >>
> > >> > has valid pixels for same area).
> > >> > I have built a VRT on top of them and then translated into a single
> > >> > GeoTIFF. However, the result has NaN in those regions.
> > >> > I was hoping that the area containing NaNs would have been ignored
> > >>
> > >> instead,
> > >>
> > >> > in favor of proper values from the other file.
> > >> > Is there any flag, properties or suggestions to make it working?
> > >> >
> > >> > If I configure the reprojection tool to write NoData = -9999 and
> then
> > >>
> > >> use
> > >>
> > >> > gdalbuildvrt -srcnodata -9999, things are working fine.
> > >> > So I'm just wondering if the same can be achieved dealing with NaN
> > >>
> > >> instead
> > >>
> > >> > of custom values.
> > >>
> > >> Daniele,
> > >>
> > >> You didn't mention which GDAL version you use. It is possible that
> > >> support for
> > >> NaN as a nodata value in gdalbuildvrt & the VRT driver was fixed at
> some
> > >> point.
> > >> From a quick test with trunk, it works  (works with 1.11 branch as
> > >> well):
> > >>
> > >> $ cat in1.asc
> > >> ncols        3
> > >> nrows        3
> > >> xllcorner    440720.000000000000
> > >> yllcorner    3750120.000000000000
> > >> cellsize     60.000000000000
> > >> NODATA_value    nan
> > >>
> > >>  1.0 1.0 1.0
> > >>  1.0 nan 1.0
> > >>  1.0 1.0 1.0
> > >>
> > >> $ cat in2.asc
> > >> ncols        3
> > >> nrows        3
> > >> xllcorner    440720.000000000000
> > >> yllcorner    3750120.000000000000
> > >> cellsize     60.000000000000
> > >> NODATA_value    nan
> > >>
> > >>  nan nan nan
> > >>  nan 2.0 nan
> > >>  nan nan nan
> > >>
> > >> $ gdalbuildvrt nan.vrt in1.asc in2.asc
> > >>
> > >> $ gdal_translate nan.vrt /vsistdout/ -of aaigrid
> > >> ncols        3
> > >> nrows        3
> > >> xllcorner    440720.000000000000
> > >> yllcorner    3750120.000000000000
> > >> cellsize     60.000000000000
> > >> NODATA_value    nan
> > >>
> > >>       1      1      1
> > >>       1      2      1
> > >>       1      1      1
> > >>
> > >> Even
> > >>
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